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The Mauna Kea Resort on the Big Island is an example of pure wow. Even the grounds are lush and beautifully manicured. With artwork scattered throughout the grounds, the resort feels more like a “tropical experience”…
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Last week’s post, The little Hawaii town with two names, took us to the Jacaranda Inn and the little town of Waimea. By the end of our second day, we’d completed the background research…
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At the end of May, we visited to the Big Island of Hawaii. Our first two nights were spent in “the upcountry.” This is the area around Parker Ranch, which was once…
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The hotel phone call scam is back in business. A friend of mine just told me how her son received a phone call in the middle of the night while he was staying at a hotel. Sometime in…
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Mark Orwell is no stranger to scams. This veteran traveler has lost money in a currency exchange in a Canadian coffee shop, been mugged by a “friendly” local in New York City, and tricked into attending a “student” art show in Beijing that turned out to be a bunch of peddlers with…
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It has been 40 years since the U.S. military dropped the last bomb on Laos, yet the effects of unexploded ordnance (UXO) are being felt today. Jerry Redfern is an award-winning photojournalist who moved to Cambodia…
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This week’s tip comes from two authors who told me they had no experience with being scammed while traveling. Neither had been the victim of a crime while traveling, but both travel extensively…
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We pulled into a dimly lit, empty street and parked near an ATM. The driver pulled out a laminated card with rates printed on it; so much for a passenger, so much for a bag, another sum for a charge for using a highway tunnel…
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Valerie Plame, the ex-CIA covert operative, may have had her cover revealed by the Bush Administration in 2003, but she says she’s never been the victim of a travel scam. For this Travel Scam Tip, two travel experts were interviewed.
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